8005396: Use ParNew with only one thread instead of DefNew as default for CMS on single CPU machines
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jcoomes

Summary: Remove bit-rotten ValidateMarkSweep functionality and flag.
Reviewed-by: johnc, jmasa
Contributed-by: Ntamao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: coleenp

Reviewed-by: johnc, coleenp

8005108: NPG: MetaspaceAux::used_in_bytes(), capacity_in_bytes() and reserved_in_bytes() return inconsistent numbers
Summary: Reverted the changes to these functions from JDK-8000662
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa

8004845: Catch incorrect usage of new and delete during compile time for value objects and stack objects
Summary: Makes the "new" and "delete" operator of _ValueObj and StackObj private
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: erik.helin@oracle.com

Summary: Add ClassLoaderData object for each anonymous class with metaspaces to allocate in.
Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose, stefank

Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: Make metaspace::contains be lock free and used to see if something is in metaspace, also compare Method* with vtbl pointer.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn, dcubed, jmasa

Summary: Truncate the java version string and add a hash value if it is too long.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Add detailed error messages to assertions and guarantees in G1's block offset table.
Reviewed-by: ysr, brutisso

Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman, coleenp

Summary: Pass down a closure during root scanning to keep the class of the method alive.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jcoomes

Summary: Add a few more this->qualifications.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes
Contributed-by: duboscq@ssw.jku.at

Summary: Qualify calls with this pointers to make gcc accept this code.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, andrew
Contributed-by: peter.levart@gmail.com

Summary: Remove function Klass::cast() and calls to it.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Reduce the amount of calls to ChunkManager verification code
Reviewed-by: jmasa, coleenp

Reviewed-by: johnc, jcoomes, ysr

Reviewed-by: johnc, tamao

Summary: Enhanced virtual memory tracking to track committed regions as well as reserved regions, so NMT now can generate virtual memory map.
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg

Summary: Restore non-silent output of heap verification.
Reviewed-by: ysr, brutisso, jmasa

Summary: Change makefiles so that targets and parameters can be overridden by alternate makefiles.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Update copyright year to 2012 for relevant files
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: support of compress class pointers in the compilers.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Change the flags and variables related to tenuring threshold to be unsigned
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc

Summary: Capitalize these metadata types (and objArrayKlass)
Reviewed-by: stefank, twisti, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Removed the unused keep_alive parameter
Reviewed-by: stefank, dholmes, kamg, coleenp

Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank, jprovino, ohair

Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr

Summary: restore java/lang/ClassLoader.addClass() upcall
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dcubed, jmasa

Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc, ysr
Contributed-by: NHal Mo <kungu.mjh@taobao.com>

Summary: Fix the iteration over the system classes and report the correct reference kind.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, rbackman

7196103: NPG: Unable to allocate bit map for parallel garbage collection for the requested heap size
Summary: Don't allocate huge class metaspace size by default on x64
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa, kvn

Summary: Simple renaming to be consistent with instanceKlass->InstanceKlass renaming
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa

Reviewed-by: jcoomes, brutisso

7195867: NPG: SAJDI tests fail with sun.jvm.hotspot.types.WrongTypeException: No suitable match for type
Summary: Need to restore the vtable in metadata when we restore the type from the shared archive.
Reviewed-by: acorn, jcoomes, jmasa, jrose

Reviewed-by: coleenp, jcoomes

Summary: If the commit fails, the size isn't set so the assert fails.
Reviewed-by: kamg